Poems of Narad

On Reading Savitri

Sept. 6, 1999

In mantric lines of breadth and majesty
Charged with the force of a God-poet's will,
Whose peace descends illumining to fill
With sudden light the moved and quickened heart
By revelation's clear unerring art,
To reason unknowable, lest all falls still,
And then by beauty overwhelmed and the thrill
Of a grandiose vision vast with potency.